Looking at digitising several manual processes

[AJWhite1970]

OK firstly I know this is a real piece of string question, I'm more looking for ideas and market players than potentially a one stop solution.

 

At present our MIS is SIMS, our finance runs on SCO and our room bookings is done on Room Booking System - Online Room Booking Software

 

Many of our systems are done manually and the Bursar has asked me to investigate digitising the following systems (there is a budget available with quite a few zeros for this apparently, I must have missed that meeting!!)

 

The processes we are looking at are:-

 

Online Enrolments (For Year 7, Sixth Form and 11+ testing)

A Parent portal front end to SIMS

A facility for teachers to use SIMS natively on tablets (rather than RDP solutions)

External Lettings and payments (preferably still using SCO as the back engine for payments)

Parents evening bookings

 

I very much doubt there is a one stop shop for all of that but I'd be grateful for recommendations etc in any of those fields especially if the integrate with others

 

Many thanks

Andrew

 

PS - thankfully no-one has mentioned cashless catering yet!!!

[ModeratelyGruntled]

The people who make RoomBookingSystem also make a ParentsEveningSystem which is handy - and we find SIMS TeacherApp good on IOS, Windows 10 and Android.

 

We also have SLG which does provide a portal for parents to check their sprog's attendance/behaviour/assessment but we aren't using it just yet. Envisioning a deluge of confused parents needing credentials reset on a very regular basis does make me wince somewhat.